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Five Practical Uses Of Spatial Autocorrelation For Studies Of Coral Reef Ecology, S Hamylton
Five Practical Uses Of Spatial Autocorrelation For Studies Of Coral Reef Ecology, S Hamylton
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A
The organisation of benthic communities across coral reefs is underpinned by spatially structured ecological processes and neighbourhood interactions such as larval dispersal, migration, competition and the spread of disease. These give rise to spatial autocorrelation in reef communities. This paper demonstrates how the measurement of spatial autocorrelation can profitably be incorporated into studies of coral reef ecology through a series of 5 simple statistical exercises: for the generation of maps depicting the strength of spatial relationships between ecological communities, as an indicator of optimal dimensions for sampling ecological communities on coral reefs, as a diagnostic tool for model misspecification, as …
Towards A Sounder Fire Ecology, Edward A. Johnson, A Malcolm Gill, Ross Bradstock, Anders Granstrom, Louis Trabaud, Kiyoko Miyanishi
Towards A Sounder Fire Ecology, Edward A. Johnson, A Malcolm Gill, Ross Bradstock, Anders Granstrom, Louis Trabaud, Kiyoko Miyanishi
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A
This forum brings together fire ecologists from outside the current wildfire controversy in the US to give their views on three central topics related to ecosystems in which wildfires are an important process. First, how do fire behavior and ecological effects vary between ecosystems? Second, why does this variation require an understanding that goes beyond simple correlations between various fire and ecosystem variables to more careful causal models? Third, how can human values and goals be reconciled with fire disturbance processes in an ecologically sound manner?